There is a collection of
1870s newspaper clippings pasted into a small book. Many deal with a dispute
that played out in 1873 on the pages of The Richland Shield and Banner
concerning who was the
first white child born in Mansfield. Other clippings are about 50th
anniversaries, including his own; birthdays; and obituaries. All those with
local content have been scanned, and names indexed on the following page.

Thomas B. Andrews was born
May 17, 1807, near Canton, Ohio, and died Feb. 28, 1889, in Butler. He and his
wife, Marilla, are buried in Independence Cemetery, Butler. He was the village’s
first postmaster and is credited as coming up with its first name, Independence,
when it was platted in 1848. Andrews was a justice of the peace for 21 years and
served two terms as a county commissioner. He was respected enough in the county
to earn the honorary title of “squire.” More information about him and his
family is available in Butler-Clear Fork Valley Historical Society files.

This genealogical information is abstracted from an 1879 article about the 50th
wedding anniversary of Thomas B. Andrews and Marilla Pollard Andrews of Butler.
The newspaper clipping was pasted in a book labeled Thomas B. Andrews, his book,
November 10th, 1879, and a handwritten note on the page said it was
written by Rosella Rice.

Mr. Andrews was born in Stark county, O., in 1807, his wife Marilla Polard was
born in Vermont in 1810, and came to Ohio in 1813, married in 1829 and settled
on the farm in 1833 where they resided ever since. They have living at this
time, eight daughters and two sons, fifty-eight grand children, and thirteen
great grand children. It was easy in this great crowd (at the anniversary party)
to see who had the blood of the Andrews in their veins, for in every case, one
would see the beautiful blue eyes – large and frank, and keen as steel were
those of the old Squire, -- while his wife’s were sad and soft and pitiful as
the eyes of a deer.

Thomas B. Andrews was born in Plain Township, Stark county, May 17, 1807, where
he lived until 1821, when he removed to Wayne county. He subsequently learned
the carpenter trade with his father at Mansfield, and assisted to build the
first brick Court House at that place. On the 22d of January, 1829, he married
Miss Marilla Pollard, of Madison township, Richland county, who was a native of
Berkshire, Vermont, where she was born August 10, 1810, and came with her
parents t Ohio, settling first at Fredericktown and subsequently in Richland
county in 1816. By this union was (sic) born eleven children, ten of whom
survive -- eight daughters and two sons, all of whom, with the exception of one
daughter, living in Missouri, attended the golden wedding of their parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Andrews have had fifty-eight grand children, fifty four of whom are now
living, and thirteen great grand children, all living. Nearly all these
descendents were present….